This document summarizes an event for the CloudStack European User Group that was held on December 13, 2018 in London. The agenda included welcome remarks from the group chairman, several technical presentations on CloudStack topics from various speakers, and discussions around collaborative opportunities for CloudStack users. Breaks were scheduled throughout the day for networking. The event was sponsored and aimed to provide a forum for sharing ideas, case studies, and addressing problems among the CloudStack user community.

1. CloudStack European User Group
13 December 2018 – BT, London
Giles Sirett
Chairman, CSEUG
Twitter: @gilesSirett

2.  Collaborative environment for:
 all things Apache CloudStack
 Related tech: ecosystem products, hypervisors, storage, etc
 Technical deep-dives, issues & best practice
 Case studies & user stories
 To showcase complementary technologies
 To share ideas & problems with other users
 Meet Quarterly.
 Linkedin group is only “membership database”
The aims of the CloudStack EUUG

3. Thanks to today’s sponsors

4.  13:15 Welcome and CloudStack news - Giles Sirett(group chairman)
 13:30 How our cloud works, Ingo Jochim & Andre Walter (Itelligence Group)
 14:15 XCP-ng A brief update, Olivier Lambert (XCP project)
 14:45-15:15 - break
 15:15 CloudStack Container Service – an update, Paul Angus (ShapeBlue)
 15:45 Advanced S3 compatible storage integration in CloudStack, Adam Dagnall
(Cloudian)
 16:30-16:45 - break
 16:45 CloudStack – 5 years in production, Andrija Panic (HIAG data AG)
 17:30 pub – The Paternoster (across the road)
Todays Agenda

5. • CloudStack European User Group
• CloudStack User Group Germany
• Geneva CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack - Romania
• Australian CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack Brazil User Group
• Vancouver CloudStack Meetup
• Japan CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack India Bangalore Chapter
• CloudStack India Hyderabad Chapter
• CloudStack Pune Meetup
• CloudStack SF Bay Area Users Group
• CloudStack NYC User Group
• CloudStack Boston User Group
• CloudStack DC and NoVA User Group
This group is one of many…

6. CloudStack news

7.  4.11.2 released
 4.11.x is an LTS branch
 71 issues fixed
 4.11.3 in planning
 4.12 in planning
Releases

8. C l i c k t o e d i t
 CloudStack Collaboration Conference
• Montreal – 24-26
September
• 360 Attendees
• 2 tracks

10. Welcome & Keynote – Mike Tutkowski

11. Cloudstack
Adoption

12. 219
116,796
21,202

13. Cloudstack Adoption
In the last 12 months our MS packages were
downloaded 116,796 times
from 21,202 different IP addresses
Combined results from download.cloudstack.org and packages.shapeblue.com between 1/9/17 and 1/9/18
Our “known user” list shows 219 users

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Management server downloads

15.  More than 250 new capabilities
 New host HA framework
 New certificate authority framework
 Integration with Prometheus
 Cloudian Hyperstore (S3) connector
 Deeper integration with Nuage SDN
 Layer 2 networking capabilities
4.11 Release
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-
notes/en/4.11.0.0/

16.  Moving towards “zero downtime upgrades”
 Ongoing work
4.11.1 Release
https://www.shapeblue.com/working-towards-cloudstack-zero-downtime-
upgrades/
•Environment configuration: In each test we build a simple isolated
network with: 10 VMs
•10 IP addresses
•Firewall rules configured on all IP addresses

17.  4.11.1 –
 major refactor of VR, parallel VR restarts
 To come:
 Advanced parallel VR restarts
 Fully negotiated redundant VR restarts
 Ongoing work on VR code
The path to zero downtime upgrades

18. C l i c k t o e d i t
Other talks
Rohit Yadav Virtual Router - Past, Present and Future Daan Hoogland Cloudstack backup and recovery framework
Boris Stoyanov Load Balancing CloudStack Agent Connections
Rafael
Weingärtner Community culture, code quality and testability.
Ingo Jochim,
Andre Walter CloudStack with Ansible Automation
Khosrow
Moossavi CloudStack integration with Vault by HashiCorp
Boyan Krosnov The story of building our CloudStack storage integration K B Shiv Kumar
CloudStack Monitoring - In-Depth Checks For
Production Deployments
Dag Sonstebo :CloudStack usage service deep dive Alexander Stock Billing with CloudStack
Nicolas Vazquez Bypass Secondary Storage Pierre-Luc Dion logs and metric collection in Apache CloudStack
Dingane Hlaluku Remote diagnostics in CloudStack
Ernie Janse van
Rensburg
VPC private gateway practical uses and
improvements
Paul Angus Complex Network Topologies in CloudStack
Henko
Holtzhausen Container Service - k8s in your cloud
S. Bretschneider CloudStack + Ceph
Pierre
VACHERAND Billing for Apache CloudStack
Suresh Kumar
Anaparti
Volume and Snapshot Improvements in Apache
Cloudstack
Jean-Francois
Nadeau A Journey to CloudStack
Kris Sterckx
CloudStack : Migrating/Transforming your guest
networks in Apache CloudStack Darren Cole Your Own CloudStack for less than $500
Sateesh
Chodapuneedi GPU/vGPU Support in CloudStack Mike Tutkowski CloudStack: What is Managed Storage? Demo

19. C l i c k t o e d i t
Hackathon
• 40+ Developers in 1
day hackathon
• Subjects covered…..

20. C l i c k t o e d i t
 Cloudstack Hackathon
Hyper-V enlightenment VR Programming Optimization
Version 5.x of CloudStack New UI working with API Discovery
KVM IO bursting Network Models refactoring + designer UI
Live VM Migration Unifying regions into consolidated pane of glass
RPC Standard interface to VR
Video series for CloudStack (ex. developers series,
users series)
Getting INFO easily out of the SSVM
Use GitHub to document aspects of CloudStack (how
to build an environment, how to start writing code for
it, etc.)
Deprecate old code
Figure out a process for how we'd like issues to be
opened, assigned, closed, and resolved (using JIRA
and GitHub Issues)
CloudMonkey testing
Create a true REST API (it can use the existing API
behind the scenes).
NoVNC in CPVM
Logic to generate code in particular use cases so you
can focus mainly on your business logic.
CentOS SIG + packaging Use standard libraries that implement JPA, HTTP, etc.
Support IPv6 Remote Meetups every quarter

21. CloudStack Collaboration Conference
Conference Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW7vgBNPiQhkJOwgkEw1bEc4IGDXnkzs7

22. Upcoming Events
CloudStack Events

23.  Next meeting of this group:
 March 14, Ticketmaster, Islington
 CFP: speakers required
Next CSEUUG

24. Cloudstack collaboration conference-2019
 Las Vegas
 9-12
September
2019
(provisional
dates)

25. Andre Walter @meradioc
Ingo Jochim @ingojochim
How our cloud works
Next Speakers…

26.  Get your organisation to be public about their use of ACS
 Get on the “known user” list*
 Offer to do a case study with PMC/ASF
 Go and talk about it !
*Known user list: http://cloudstack.apache.org/survey.html
Specific calls to action

27. CloudStack European User Group
13 September 2018 – London
Giles Sirett
Chairman, CSEUG
Twitter: @gilesSirett